| | | | Menu Toggle navigation » » ‘A little humor helps’ Text: Increase font size Decrease font size Joseph Ferrell reads the honorary doctorate citation for Erskine Bowles during the 1997 Commencement. Ferrell was the voice of honorary doctorates for two decades beginning in 1996. Joseph Ferrell will partake in his final Commencement as he retires from this secretary of the faculty position, ending his long tenure of citation reading. ‘A little humor helps’ When Joseph Ferrell stepped to the Kenan Stadium podium for his first commencement as secretary of the faculty in 1996, he quickly realized something was a bit amiss. “I started reading the citation and the students started reading along with me,” Ferrell said. “As soon as I realized what they were doing I started reading the sentence
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